 I learned this, at least, by my experiment -, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.  History of American Literature - Page 201by Reuben Post Halleck - 1911 - 431 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Chambers's journal - 1858 - 432 pages
...and wisely. Moreover, if a man advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex, and solitude... | |
 | 1868 - 802 pages
...ruts of tradition and conformity! I have learned that if one advances confidently in the directions of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which...will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary ; new, universal, and more liberal... | |
 | 1868 - 416 pages
...love you and your sentiment as one. Thoreau, who was a sober writer, says at the end of Walden : " I learned this, at least, by my experiment ; that...advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with 3 success unexpected in common... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1882 - 280 pages
...experiment ; i hat of one advances confidently in the direc- ' ionl'of his dreams, and endeavors to live he life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hourSjHe will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary ; new, universal, and more liberal... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1890 - 174 pages
...universe^ I learned this, at least, by my pu? f h£h s es't° experiment: that if one advances ideas. confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors...which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unimagined in common hours. In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will... | |
 | Henry Stephens Salt - 1890 - 336 pages
...of work. Secondly, " that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours ; in proportion as he simplifies his life the laws of the universe will appear less complex, and solitude... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1893 - 536 pages
...world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now. 1 learned this, at least, by my experiment •, that...imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hourS-l He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary; new, universal, and more liberal... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1893 - 550 pages
...moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now. I learned this, at least, by my experiment i that if one advances confidently in the direction...will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary ; new, universal, and more liberal... | |
 | Rev. James Wood - 1893 - 694 pages
...grossest temptation, Johnson. If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours 1893 Warne" Wood James" James Wood C % c t 1V} 2 h 0 cU ¬~ nj ]m 'f hartan. If one age believes too much, it is but a natu- 30 ral reaction that another age should... | |
 | 1894 - 308 pages
...a child, grown or adult, as the most atrocious crimes are to any of us. — Lord Brougham. О О О I LEARNED this at least by my experiment — that...which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unimagined in common hours. In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will... | |
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